David Greenspan

Actor/Playwright/Director

At Playwrights Horizons: acting in and directing his play She Stoops to Comedy (Obie), acting in Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax and directing Ms. Tolan’s Kate’s Diary. His other plays include Jack, The Home Show Pieces and 2 Samuel 11, Etc. (Home); Dead Mother (Public); The Argument(Target Margin, Obie); The Myopia (Foundry); and with songwriter Stephin Merritt, Coraline (dir. Leigh Silverman, MCC). He has received two performance Obies: one for Terrence Mc-Nally’s Some Men and Goethe’s Faust, and one for Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band. Other credits include Orlando, The Metal Children, The Royal Family, Cornbury, Beebo Brinker Chronicles (dir. Leigh Silverman), Saved or Destroyed, and Lipstick Traces. Alumnus: New Dramatists, Guggenheim and Lortel fellowships, Alpert Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement. (As of March 2011)